The MBTI

[harpdreamer]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:

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> I really found it difficult to answer the E/I T/F questions.  If 
it's a matter of how I am the majority of the time, looking at my 
life as a whole I'd have to choose for the Intellectual, but looking 
at the last six months I'd have to choose for the Artist.  If it's a 
matter of which of the sides is my True Self, I don't think I could 
answer... I treasure my Artist, feel she is more fundamental to my 
nature (as opposed to nurture) and want to give her more air time, 
but does that me she is the real me, more so that the Intellectual 
who has dominated until recently?  As for Thinking and Feeling, when 
my emotions dominate, as they occasionally do, they *really* take 
over, wipe out everything else like a tidal wave, all rationality, 
all analysis, everything.  Yet as soon as the tidal wave recedes, the 
Thinker comes rushing in, tutting at the mess, and analyses 
everything back into place.
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> I did eventually come up with a code by reading the descriptions of 
each type and deciding which sounded most like me as a whole, but 
even there I was wavering between a couple. Can't remember what I 
finally settled on.  INTP, maybe?  What are they like?
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> (Did anyone else who did the test have this sort of problem?)
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> Tabouli.


I've taken the Myers-Briggs twice now and both times I came out the 
same--INFJ.  I *did* have a lot of trouble with some of the 
questions, because sometimes I'm one way and sometimes just the 
opposite--a lot depends on the situation I find myself in.  For 
example, I have a very "E(xtrovert)" job (I'm a Historic Interpreter 
at a historic rice plantation) in which I'm expected to talk to 
people I don't know.  I really enjoy this, but I also enjoy the times 
when we have no visitors and I can concentrate on my weaving or 
spinning.  I'm very much an "F" (Feeler), yet when my husband needs a 
situation analysed, he comes to me.  The only two that stay the same 
are the "N" (iNtuitive) and the "J" (Judging).  I do tend to go with 
intuition and gut-level instinct and I am quite judemental. A good 
example of this is from our last job (again as historic interpreters, 
this time at a Native American Site in a Park) when after only two 
weeks there I told my husband that we'd made a *huge* mistake taking 
the job.  As it turns out, I was proved right seven months later when 
he was asked to resign.

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker 
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